Woodpeckers can be deterred. Staff Writer. ... windsocks and whirligigs. You can buy an electronic device that frightens the birds with the sound of a woodpecker’s distress call, ...

Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to ...

A woodpecker is wreaking havoc in Rockport, smashing car windows and mirrors: ‘This thing is huge’ An overzealous pileated woodpecker has broken about 20 car mirrors and one windshield in the ...

Martin Le-May caught the moment when the woodpecker took flight with a weasel on its back Amateur photographer Martin Le-May, from Essex, has recorded the extraordinary image of a weasel riding on ...

A seaside Massachusetts town appears to have fallen prey to an overzealous pileated woodpecker that damaged more than 20 vehicles, a resident said. “We seem to have a vandal in our neighborhood.

Favalro said the woodpecker and the media attention it has attracted has been a fun distraction from everything else going on in the world. “This small town of Rockport that I live in is one of ...